Turistas

John Stockwell's thriller Turistas begins when vacationers end up stranded in a little Brazilian village after a bus accident wipes out their transportation. Although many in the group are experienced when it comes to unusual travel destinations, none of them are able to get a handle on this strange ...more

Turistas is as curious a mix of strengths and weaknesses as you're likely to find in a modern horror movie. Its best parts are truly superlative, but often within the same set piece (or even the same shot), John Stockwell's movie is undone by pointless red herrings and lame-brained plotting. For starters, Turistas would have been better off concentrating on the extreme disorientation of being lost and penniless in a foreign country. Stockwell makes coastal Brazil the same kind of exotic youth ...more